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A simple symfony 1.4 URL validator

A 0.5 improvement, is still an improvement. As much as we’d like people to strictly fill in data into forms, they get annoyed and complain when the http:// prefix is mandatory. As such I had to create my own validator … Continue reading

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FTP, PHP and leaky abstractions

To be honest until recently I never gave much taught on FTPs way of working. Sure I’ve used it for a long time, and tried to minimize it’s use for an even longer period; but sometimes you just get things … Continue reading

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MVC is a lie…

…especially in the context of web frameworks. If we think about if for a moment, we can all agree that almost every web framework uses the MVC concept, everybody advocates it, but few people actually grasp the true meaning of … Continue reading

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Prototype based object oriented programming in PHP

The other day I’ve found this interestingly controversial submission on reddit and I must admit that after taking a quick look at the code, I ran of for some eye bleach to erase that image from my mind. While I … Continue reading

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The state of PHP frameworks

CodeIgniter If I remember well, it was about two years ago that I first laid hands on CodeIgniter. It was my first web framework and came in touch with it after seeing it listed as development tool of one web … Continue reading

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Sieve of Eratosthenes in PHP

As mentioned in my last article, I started doing some challenges from the Programming Praxis website. And here comes my PHP solution to the second challenge.

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RPN Calculator in PHP

I’ve found this nice little blog a couple of days ago called Programming Praxis (it’s in my blogroll as well) which poses a series of programming challenges. The challenges found there are much more interesting than the other usual ones … Continue reading

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Do comunities kill good developers?

Recently I have been asked to join a local community of developers, which I refused. The moment I did that they instinctively, as with any other occasion that you refuse someone, asked me for a reason. While I hadn’t had … Continue reading

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